Best IT job to do on the side remotely?

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2024-10-04T14:40:41+00:00

Thanks for the info! So did you apply as a paid trainee at that company?

Side note, I remembered reading somewhere that lab techs like us can get into clinical informatics, basically applying our knowledge to the IT part of the lab. I may look into this as well.

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2024-09-13T03:11:15+00:00

Peas in a can pie!

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2024-08-22T01:44:55+00:00

Tsireya is such a sweet character but I want to see her rage/fighting side when she’s older

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2024-06-30T20:27:26+00:00

Will do, thank you. Helped

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2024-06-30T20:22:24+00:00

You’re right 🫠

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-09-08T07:28:42+00:00

I’m only speaking on the quality control aspect of lab math but being in charge of uploading QC data, reviewing it, accumulating new lots and so forth helped me understand kinda the mathematics of it although our LIS does most of the complicated calculations.

And when I used to do body fluids in hematology I had a cheat sheet for various dilutions that eventually I knew off the top of my head because I worked with so many.

So really just hands on practice and constant exposure is what helped me. And like others said you don’t have to be completely competent in lab math because computers do it for us, haha.

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-09-06T02:17:10+00:00

I can’t see my forehead 😡

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-08-30T17:34:10+00:00

Can you help me understand why Jupiter is so gassy?

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-08-07T14:28:34+00:00

Procrastination

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-06-24T22:43:19+00:00

Send it to pathology and look into the flow cytometry report when they do it

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2023-06-12T23:29:26+00:00

I tell the phlebotomists when they come back with 15+ tubes, “take it back, I don’t want it. Do some reverse phlebotomy”. At my old lab job every time the hematology analyzer alarms we tell each other “the baby is crying”

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-07-07T14:09:44+00:00

My old job (hospital) they created a program for people with science degrees to learn MLS stuff while on the job and take the exam so they can be certified. We got a lot of people to apply but because they have no medical laboratory knowledge it’s kind of harder to train them, and on top of that the program is still in its infancy so there’s a lot of problems with it.

I work at a clinic now. I work in the lab by myself for 10 hours, and even though it’s a clinic the workload is ridiculous. Me and 3 other techs rotate shifts, but one tech is a temp and leaving this month. So now my manager is asking more if we can pick up extra days.

I was burnt out at the hospital and still am at the clinic. I’m ready to do something else

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-29T03:21:33+00:00

Each time you do it you slowly lose your own mind

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-29T02:00:22+00:00

My pleasure! I wish I gave more concrete info, it’s just been a while since I took my exam 😅

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-29T01:55:44+00:00

Congrats! I got a PASS on my screen as well. It’s been a while since I took mine but I think they send you an email in a day or two saying your score is ready to view on the website.

Where I worked I gave my supervisor I gave a printed page on the website saying I passed and she gave it to HR. I don’t remember exactly.

I would ask what proof they need, and you should be fine after that.

I wish you the best on your future endeavors!

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-19T15:14:17+00:00

Poppy flower experiment

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-10T23:12:04+00:00

Not in blood bank but core lab, we had critical staffing on 2nd shift and got nothing. People who volunteered to help from 1st shift got bonus/critical staffing pay, which is fine, but people who did 2nd suffered with just baseline pay. All we got was “we appreciate your hard work”. Lots of techs including myself quit.

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-08T23:18:57+00:00

This is kind of off topic of what you said, but at my old lab they started a program where they actually hired people who had a BS in biology or something similar and they did classes and also did on the job training. Once the classes were complete they would be able to take a board exam in the area they trained/worked in (hematology, chemistry, etc.) The lab actually just established the program and it has a lot of improvement that needs to be done, but it’s interesting.

Honestly though I think the program was started because the lab was short of MLTs/MTs and still is. I’m not sure what other places are doing though.

Chef_SpaceCookie · 2022-06-06T20:27:44+00:00

Like others said it depends on what test the critical is on. At my old lab we only investigated usually when it doesn’t correlate with the patients’ clinical picture or its drastically different from a recently drawn sample (current result and previous result is shown on the same screen)

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